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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Ursula K. Le Guin quotes

American Writer October 21, 1929

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Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act..."
Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly. Ursula K. Le Guin
For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think. Ursula K. Le Guin
On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drinnk between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "The novelist's business is lying."
The novelist's business is lying. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing..."
Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up. Ursula K. Le Guin
In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand. Ursula K. Le Guin
A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea. Ursula K. Le Guin
We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. Ursula K. Le Guin
Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison? Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It..."
If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Ursula K. Le Guin
If you can't lick'em, join'em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight , to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for..."
They praised his modesty and did not listen to him, for listening is a rare gift, and men will have their heroes. Ursula K. Le Guin
To oppose something is to maintain i? To be sure, if you turn your back on [something] and walk away from it, you are still on the [same] road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road. Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the..."
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. Ursula K. Le Guin
There was room for them. A great deal of Italy, back then, was forest. Where man goes, trees die; or, to paraphrase Tacitus, we make a desert and call it progress. Ursula K. Le Guin

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